Neil Gaiman (and string quartet) coming to S.F.

The best-selling author of “The Sandman,” “Coraline” and “The Graveyard Book” will read his novelette “The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains” at a June 25 performance at the Warfield in San Francisco. Tickets went on sale today.

In what is being billed as a “revolutionary new concept of synchronized multi-media storytelling,” Australia’s FourPlay String Quartet will provide the musical backdrop to the story, about a search for a hidden treasure. Images by the painter Eddie Campbell will be projected in the background.

The only other U.S. date for the show will be in New York, on June 27 at Carnegie Hall. Dates are also scheduled for London July 4 and 5.

Gaiman provided extracts from the original 2010 performance, at the Sydney Opera House, on his website.

William Morrow will publish “The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains” as a book in June.